One month in: now what do we think of this team?

We are just under one month into the 2010-11 edition of the Vancouver Canucks. Despite pre-season Stanley Cup predictions, this season began with a bit of a whimper. The Canucks started off the season 2-3-2, beating only bottom feeders Florida and Carolina. It also featured a fan fueled goaltending freakout of Dan Cloutier proportions. The Goalie Controversy Myth The season also started off with two impressive outings by Cory Schneider and a less than impressive start for Roberto Luongo. This of course started the calls by uneducated fans to trade Luongo and to allow Schneider to become the new number one goalie. The fact that the team cherry picked two easy games for Schneider didn’t seem to be taken into consideration nor the fact that Luongo is a notorious slow starter. Recently, I attended the Canucks-Avalanche game. When the Avalanche tied the game with about a minute left, a guy behind me blurted out: “Pssh! Ten million dollars!”. Nevermind the fact that he ...